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Food Frontiers, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Gastrointestinal diseases remain a significant global health concern, primarily due to the limitations of current pharmacological treatments, which often come with adverse side effects and high recurrence rates. This situation highlights the urgent need for safer and more effective alternatives.
Isabel Sousa Alcântara +7 more
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Scientia Agricola, 2009 Papaya ringspot virus - type W (PRSV-W) and Zucchini yellow mosaic virus (ZYMV) are the most prevalent viruses in cucurbit crops in Brazil and responsible for frequent yield losses. Diseases caused by these viruses are difficult to control. The objective
Estela Bonilha +5 more
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FIRST REPORT OF Meloidogyne incognita PARASITIZING Momordica charantia L. IN PERNAMBUCO, BRAZIL
Ciência Agrícola, 2020 Momordica charantia roots showing symptoms of root-knot disease were collected from vegetable gardens in the city of Recife, PE, Brazil. Through morphological and enzymatic characterization and molecular analysis of ITS and 28S rDNA regions, Meloidogyne ...
Francisco Jorge Carlos Souza Junior +4 more
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Iron deficiency anaemia remains a major public health challenge in Sub‐Saharan Africa, where population growth, displacement and limited resources heighten nutritional insecurity. We compiled a list of indigenous African underutilized wild food plants and examined their potential for addressing micronutrient deficiencies.
Eltayb Abdellatef +2 more
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Production and quality of mini watermelon cv. Smile irrigated with saline water
Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agrícola e AmbientalThe purpose of this study was to evaluate the salt tolerance of mini watermelon (cv. Smile). The experiment was carried out in the greenhouse of the Department of Biosystems Engineering of ESALQ/USP. The experimental design was randomized blocks.
Alan B. O. de Sousa +5 more
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Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2019 Cucumber, Cucumis sativus is one of the most cultivated vegetables in the world, which is mostly consumed raw in China. The complete chloroplast genome of C. sativus was assembled and annotated in this study.
Wei Xiao, Xuanyao Wang, Mei Bie
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Pest Management Science, EarlyView.Whole‐genome sequencing identified novel ryanodine receptor mutations P4568L and Y4701D causing >1000‐fold chlorantraniliprole resistance in Spodoptera litura, enabling development of molecular diagnostics for proactive resistance management. Abstract BACKGROUND Spodoptera litura is a significant insect pest that attacks many agricultural crops ...
Yizhou Chen +4 more
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Isolation and Characterization of Cellulose from Underexploited Golden Melon Skin
Makara Journal of Science, 2018 Golden melon skin (GM) is an underexploited plant resource in Nigeria from which cellulose (GMC) was isolated and characterized. Characterization was achieved using Fourier transform-infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD ...
Adewale Adewuyi, Fabiano Vargas Pereira
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Cucurbitaceae species used as traditional medicine in West Africa
Journal of Medicinal Plants for Economic Development, 2022 Background: The use of some Cucurbitaceae species for the treatment of diseases is an ancient practice in traditional medicine systems in Africa and the cucurbitacins among others have been reported to be responsible for most of these healing activities.
Olufunke O. Fajinmi +4 more
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Insect Science, EarlyView.The role of 3 mitochondrial complex I gene in host expansion of Bactrocera tau was verified by CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing system. A stable homogenous strain (Btndufa7‐/‐) of B.tau was established after silencing Ndufa7. The reduced size of larvae and pupae of Ndufa7 knockout strain was first found.Then different levels of fitness and relative expression ...
Wei Shi +3 more
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